Dipped?... 1929 Standing Liberty Quarter

I understand that your point is that you have no desire to own a problem coin, but to insinuate that a cleaned AU SLQ is only worth melt is a little over the top.

 

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I'm not trying to be mean but I'm gonna throw this out there. It is gonna be hard to take you advice after you admitted buying a polished coin and didn't return it.

 

Hey @Lehigh96 I know you're a nickel guy. I got these two today. Nothing valuable but thought you might appreciate them...

 

Sorry that was a bit over the top. That's just my opinion. A coin is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. In my case not much. My advice to the op is to find a nicer example unless this one is dirt cheap and even if it is it will always be a coin you always need to apologize for. I could understand more if it was a 1916 or a 1918/7 but is a common date that's easily found

 

They look nice, how are the steps on the 43-P? The 50-D doesn't have a great strike but the surfaces look very clean, I like it.

 

You won't go wrong with a lowball bid. You could just as easily watch the auction as the outcome will be the same, you won't win it. This seller has a huge following of bidders including some suspected shill activity. His raw coins typically sell for way more than fmv (my opinion). I used to bid on certified coins but that proved to be a waste of time as well. GSC is now on my sellers excluded from search list.

As for the op coin - AU, dipped to appear MS.

 

I think the coin in the eBay listing looks nice. HOWEVER, I have heard countless bad experiences about this seller. I don't care what his pictures look like, I would not buy a coin from this seller. When I'm browsing coins on eBay and one in the search is from this particular seller, I don't even look at it, I skip over it.

I don't want or need the headaches.

 

Yeah, I can see your point, but how many others have kept coins they don't like, or bought coins they later regreted, then sold them at a loss soon afterwards?

 

I have to differ with you on this, from two standpoints. First, is cleaning some sort of Scarlet Letter which all respectable numismatists must shun? Is there no allowable scenario in the wondrous variety of our collecting habits to find it in one's heart to appreciate a cleaned coin?

And second, is it not narrowminded and ultimately self-defeating to immediately exclude the wisdom of someone simply because their interests allow the ownership of a cleaned coin? Especially so, coming from one of the plainly most-thoughtful members here.

 

That seller has a bad reputation. Years ago, I got a Morgan from him, which looked great in the picture. What I received was a cleaned, overdipped coin. They are strictly a "buyer beware" seller as far as I am concerned--dipping to the point of luster death, problem coin selling, and deceptive photography. That coin looks AU details to me as a result of the washed out look from a cleaning, despite the photo enhancements.